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"content": "Last week, I had the opportunity of visiting a country where my grandfather came from. It is called Pakistan. They had similar problems like this country. I remember in 1992 and 1997 trying to put together a new local government act that has never come to pass. Since 1997, they have tried to put together the local government act which provide for devolved system, but they have not succeeded. It started falling apart in 2007. So we are saying that we do not want to go that way. I am urging this House and the Minister to give us more time. Our Committee is scheduled to meet with the stakeholders on Friday. Surely, if we cannot meet them on Friday, we will need another ten days. If they wanted us to push this thing through, we should have done so earlier. So, my plea is that as much as I think this is a great Bill, let us give it the time to mature as required. Let us have the infrastructure on board. There is no harm in putting the infrastructure now without having the county government in place."
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